Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium praelongum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Prélèvements d'eau des mésocosmes pour analyses, lors de l'expérience menée en Corse en juin/juillet 2012 (© A. Ree, PML)
Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.
Illustration in synthesized images of the seasons of the ocean: a year from the Antarctic - Animation Clement Fontana
The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.
Siphonophores - The longest animals on the planet
Cousins of corals, siphonophores are colonies of specialized individuals called zoids. Some catch and digest their prey, others swim, or lay eggs or sperm.
The research vessel "James COOK"
The seasonal evolution of the chlorophyll a concentration as seen by a « water color » satellite (SeaWifs) in the Atlantic Ocean.
Colony of salps Salpa fusiformis (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Diatom genus Coscinodiscus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Les mésocosmes déployés dans la rade de Villefranche (© L. Maugendre, LOV)
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes (© Stareso)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Ostracodes (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Sea Urchin - Planktonic Origins
Barely visible to the naked eye, sea urchin larvae grow and transform into bottom-dwelling urchins.